Fw: CHS '59ers Blog Update

From: Jack Cunningham

Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 10:47 AM

Kent, so sorry to hear of the loss of your mom.  Our moms were contemporaries.  Having just lost mine in April, I know the void this can leave.  I just wanted you to know how special your mom was.  She was indeed a kind, caring and thoughtful person.  My mom spoke so highly of her.  When you mom was a patient at Dr. Marsh's where my mom worked until she was 90, your mother always remembered her with such wonderful little remembrances that mother always so appreciated.  It is truly the passing of an era.  I remember your mom fondly as a genteel southern lady.  My deepest condolences.

Marsha Moore Cunningham 

Jack Guider

Jack Guider, 68, our classmate died on Monday, August 23, 2010, in Rossville, Ga.

Many of us share fond memories of him from our years at CHS. --- Sharon Barker Tunnell


ROSSVILLE Jack Keefe Guider, 68, died Monday Aug. 23, 2010.He is survived by a son, Michael Guider; daughter Lisa Guilder and granddaughter, Taylor Dean; fianc, Anna Dantzler and special caregivers, Karen Stutzman and Laranda Dantzler.A private family memorial service will be conducted in Fort Payne, Ala.Send condolences at www.CovenantFuneral.com.---Chattanooga Times Free Press

New e-mail address

Please note that Mary Whelchel Pierce has changed her e-mail address to:

marypierce1@cable.net

Thanks for the update, Mary --- Carolyn Presswood

Kent's mother

Kent, I am so sorry and sad for you that you have lost your mother. My own mother died a year ago, and I think of her daily and appreciate all the memories. It doesn't matter how old we are or how old they are, it is hard to lose your Mom. Love and prayers to you and your family,---Carolyn Presswood

Kent Smith's mom

From: susan crouch
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 5:05 PM

Subject: Kent Smith's mom

Kent Smith's mother passed away today. It's never easy losing a mom no matter the age. Kent is in my thoughts.

Susie Crouch


From: kent smith kent6294@comcast.net

Sent: Wed, August 25, 2010 3:02:12 PM

Mother passed away today @12:27 pm . We were with her when she went and it was very peaceful

Anne Johnson says " Prost!"

I am thinking about my classmates and friends while in Germany, and send you a toast to our good health so we will meet for our 70th birthday party! Anne Johnson

Dynamo Trio in Orlando

Anita Balfour Collins, Cindy Lichtenstetter Wilson and Gloria Christian Haney

Cindy Lichtenstetter Wilson and I drove from Cindy's home in Brandon,
Florida to Orlando to have lunch with Anita Balfour Collins. We enjoyed our
visit and had a chance to catch up with each other and take our picture
together. ---Gloria Christian Haney

Chattanooga Lunch Bunch

The Chattanooga group will meet for lunch on our usual fourth Thursday of the month, at noon on August 26, at The Public House.  If you are in the area (or if you just need a road trip), we would love to have  you join the regulars.  We always have a great time sharing memories and updating each other with our current information.You are really missing a fun time if you have not tried it.  We are all still reconnecting and renewing old and new friendships.  Hope to see you there. Linda Rogers Chambers

A Great CHS '59er Loss; Joe Eberhart

From Nancy Poole Klein:

Sunday morning paper has the obituary for Joe Eberhart.  Visitation will be at Valley View Chapel of Chattanooga Funeral Home on Monday from 5-8 p.m. and funeral will be on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at Pine Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church in McDonald, TN.

Joe and Donna had lived in McDonald for years.  The Obituary speaks of their having an aerial photography company.  As I recall it, Joe was injured in a plane crash several years ago and had never fully recovered.  I'm not sure about the recovery, but had heard this somewhere over time.  I have not seen either Joe or Donna in years.  They kind of moved to McDonald and disappeared from the daily "radar."  I had known both of them through church circles since we were in high school and before they were married.


Joe Eberhart's obituary from The Chattanooga Times Free-Press:


Joseph K. Eberhart, 69, of McDonald, died Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010, in a local hospital.Born in Atlanta, he moved to Chattanooga in 1958, and was the son of the late Frank and Kathryn Hutchison Eberhart.


He graduated from City High in 1959 and the University of Chattanooga in 1964, where he received his BA in Pre-Med and in 1965, his MA in teaching and he also had 16 hours towards his PhD at UT Knoxville. 


Joe taught fifth grade for two years at McBrien Elementary and also taught biology, chemistry and physics for 10 years at Dalton High School.


In 1976 he started his own Aerial Photography business with his wife Donna. Joe was the pilot, printed all the photos and made the frames, while his wife, Donna was the photographer and delivered the photos. 


Joe also loved playing and teaching the guitar. He loved Jesus and telling others about Him, and now he has gone home to be with Him.


He was preceded in death by a brother, Charlie Eberhart.Survivors include his wife, Donna Brock Eberhart; son, Carl V. Eberhart and Don B. (Brenda) Eberhart, all of McDonald; sister, Teresa Gaddis, Ooltewah; brother, Buck Eberhart, Grayson, Ga.; two grandsons, Blake P. Eberhart and Daniel J. Eberhart.


Funeral services will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in Pine Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church with Russ Maroon officiating.Interment will be in Pine Hill Cemetery.


Memorial contributions may be made to the Pine Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 974 Old Alabama Road, McDonald, TN 37353.


Please share your thoughts and memories online at mem.com.The family will receive friends from 5-8 p.m. Monday at the Valley View Chapel of Chattanooga Funeral Home, Crematory & Florist, 7414 Old Lee Highway.

Sharon's sleuths...

We want you ... to help Sharon let CHS '59ers know about our 70th birthday bash!  Do you have a new mailing address since May '09?  Send it along to sharontunnell@gmail.com

Be one of Sharon's Sleuths too. You may know of a friend's address change we don't have. Send any CHS '59er street address changes since May '09 to sharontunnell@gmail.com. 

Charley Wheeler will send everyone a "Save the Date" post card mailer about our 70th birthday bash soon.   Later, we will send everyone an invitation and registration form.  

Save the Date June 4, 2011

Hey Classmates,

Please mark your calendars now for what we hope will be a fun, casual, easy going birthday party get-together.

I have booked the Bessie Smith Hall from 5:00 til 10:00. We will meet and greet, hug necks and carry on from 5 – 7 with light hors d’ oeuvres, beer and wine, etc. and at 7:00 will have a delicious meal catered by The Big Table (I think their food is wonderful). We’ll probably have a birthday cake after dinner.

Today I booked a DJ who will start his music while we eat and then crank it up for some dancing to fifties music. He’s got lots of 50’s numbers and will throw in an Electric Slide and a Brick House - that ought to really get us going!

A lot more information will be coming your way a little later. I know a lot of you will be coming in on Friday and we can certainly gather for dinner as a group Dutch treat if you’d like.  Folks coming from Nashville, Atlanta, etc. may just want to come in on Saturday. If any of you want to have brunch on Sunday, let us know – there are several places downtown that could accommodate us. I’m sure Anne J will follow up on the Friday/Sunday gathering.

Let us know your thoughts, suggestions, whatever and I really hope we will have a big turnout. I think it is going to be fun.

Love from North Chattanooga,

Susie Turner Crouch

Dickinson annual house party,..

Some pictures from the Dickinson annual house party at Sandra Wooten Wright's lake home. Lots of good conversation and food during the two day party.


Those attending were Anne Johnson, Nancy Gordon Griffith, Patty Brewer, Dianne Fuller Adams, Betty Anderson Dunn, Sharon Barker Tunnell, Sandra Wooten Wright and Linda Rogers Chambers


We all enjoyed having Sharon in town for several days and Bill Cross was in town briefly today. Great to see everyone.


Also pictured are a couple of small classmate lunches.


Linda Rogers Chambers

Sharon Barker Tunnell, Linda Rogers Chambers, Betty Anderson Dunn, 

Sandra Wooten Wright

Linda Rogers Chambers, Bill Cross, Anne Johnson and Susie Turner Crouch

Sandra Wooten Wright, Linda Rogers Chambers, Anne Johnson,
Sharon Barker Tunnell, Betty Anderson Dunn

Charlotte Meacham Mullis-Morgan, Linda Rogers Chambers, 

Anne Johnson,Sharon Barker Tunnell, Betty Anderson Dunn

 Sharon Barker Tunnell, Linda Rogers Chambers, Sandra Wooten Wright, and Betty Anderson Dunn.  Also pictured are Nancy Gordon Griffith, Patty Brewer, Dianne Fuller Adams and Charlotte Meacham Mullis-Morgan